Lungs Transported From Ahmedabad To Delhi Via Air, Two Green Corridors
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The recipient was a 54-year-old man from Meerut, who has been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for many years, and the operation took place at a leading private facility in south Delhi, hospital authorities in New Delhi said.
Lungs harvested from a brain-dead patient in Ahmedabad was on Wednesday transported to Delhi for life-saving transplant surgery, the organs being ferried via air and two green corridors on the ground, hospital authorities in New Delhi said.
The recipient was a 54-year-old man from Meerut, who has been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for many years, and the operation took place at a leading private facility in south Delhi, they said.
The green corridor was created between the Civil Hospital and the airport in Ahmedabad, and then the organs were flown via a flight, and then another green corridor was made between the IGI International Airport here and Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, hospital authorities said in a statement.
"The lungs were seamlessly transported, covering a total distance of 950 km in three hours," it said.